Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:54:03 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: VFS mediator? |
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Hi!
> > Okay, take userland nfs-server. (This thread was about userland > > filesystems). > > Yech... Nobody should be seriously considering using unfsd: it does > not even manage to follow the NFS protocol. That inability was one of > the many reasons why Olaf Kirch abandoned further develpement of unfsd > and started work on knfsd. > > > Then, make memory full of dirty pages. Imagine that nfs-server > > is swapped-out by some bad luck. What you have is extremely > > nasty deadlock, AFAICS. [To free memory you have to write out > > dirty data, but you can't do that because you don't have enough > > memory for nfs-server]. > > So that is another argument for using knfsd rather than unfsd. I will > agree with you that NFS is not perfect, but please judge it on its > actual merits and not on some trumped up charge...
Sorry, this thread was about userland filesystems, and NFS is just not usefull there (for read/write case).
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